why does dvisvgm fail on this tikz figure?

Question

documentclass[tikz]{standalone}

begin{document}
begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1.3]
draw[help lines] grid (5, 5);
draw[fill=magenta!10] (1, 1) rectangle (2, 2);
draw[fill=magenta!10] (2, 1) rectangle (3, 2);
draw[fill=magenta!10] (3, 1) rectangle (4, 2);
draw[fill=magenta!10] (3, 2) rectangle (4, 3);
draw[fill=magenta!10] (2, 3) rectangle (3, 4);

end{tikzpicture}
end{document}

I ran
latexmk -xelatex -etex sample.tex
dvisvgm --font-format=woff2 --exact sample.xdv sample.svg

and got an empty output.
Using pdf2svg instead succeeds.
Why does my dvisvg command fail?

Martin · Accepted Answer

By default, TikZ creates PDF specials when used together with xelatex -no-pdf. dvisvgm doesn't support these specials and therefore the generated SVG contains no graphics.
In order to create proper specials, either process the .tex file with latex instead of xelatex, or add document class option dvisvgm:
documentclass[tikz,dvisvgm]{standalone}

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